September 23

Isaiah 10:12-12:6
Psalm 110:1-7
Proverbs 23:9-11
2 Corinthians 11:16-12:10

“Keep Your Eyes on the Tide”
Your people will volunteer on Your day of battle.
—Psalm 110:3

Has God something bigger for us than we are at present seeing? I hope I have convinced you that He has! How can we be open to receiving it? It comes at the precise moment God appoints but it is carried down from heaven on the wings of fervent, believing prayer. Dr. A. T. Pierson said: “From the Day of Pentecost until now, there has not been one great spiritual awakening in any land which has not begun in a union of prayer though only among two or three, and no such outward or upward movement has continued after such prayer meetings have declined.” Revivals are born in prayer and sustained by prayer.

Just as there are signs concerning the second coming, so there are signs that the Lord is not far from reviving His whole church. In the early days of the Salvation Army in France, the eldest daughter of General Booth, known by her French rank as the “Marechale,” found herself at one point in an extremely discouraging situation. She wrote to General Booth asking for his advice, which came in these words: “Take your eyes off the waves and fix them on the tide.”

I give you now that same advice. Don’t let your eyes become focused on the waves, with their advances and retreats. Keep your eyes on the tide and ask yourself: Is it rising? If you look with the eye of faith I think you will see that it is. When it breaks I pray that it will not find us unprepared but that we shall be a people who are willing in the day of God’s power.

Prayer
Father, I don’t know whether I will live to see a worldwide revival, but I want to live to experience a personal revival. Take me on from this point to know You in a much greater way. In Christ’s name I ask it. Amen.

Further Study
Ezk 37:1-14; 2Kings 3:16-17; Isa 40:3-5; Rv 22:1
What was God’s message to Ezekiel?
What will you do to bring about revival?

Every Day with Jesus Daily Bible – September 23